Special Message
12/16/1890
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If this article of the treaty is in force, the obligations assumed by the United States should be fully and honorably ob...
The influence and interest of the United States in the islands must be increased and not diminished.
I have felt that it was not only essential as a matter of national defense, but that there was a prestige and influence ...
He was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious civil off...